Is there gender discrimination in the marketplace of short-time rental?: the case of Xiaozhu.com

DOI

10.2991/febm-17.2017.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

P2P; Short-time house rental; Price; Gender discrimination; Xiaozhu.com

Abstract

In the past few years, the model of P2P was introduced to the area of short-time house rental. Online marketplaces often contain information about products and the people who sell the products. In this paper, we test for gender discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Xiaozhu.com. According to our research, landladies charge approximately 10.47% more than landlords for the equivalent rental. These effects are robust when all information visible in the Xiaozhu marketplace is controlled. These findings highlight the popularity of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an unintended consequence of a seemingly-routine mechanism for building trust.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinting Bian
AU  - Hongcheng Wang
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Is there gender discrimination in the marketplace of short-time rental?: the case of Xiaozhu.com
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference On Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 500
EP  - 506
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/febm-17.2017.67
DO  - 10.2991/febm-17.2017.67
ID  - Bian2017/10
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